Fresh from his second stint in HMP Channings Wood, disgraced private investigator Joe Rey returns home to find out that his crumbling rooming house, the Black Regent, has been quietly acquired by Devon & Cornwall Constabulary and converted into a clandestine safe house to shelter witnesses to some of the Westcountry’s most horrific crimes. While he gathers his belongings—and enjoys one final drink in the TV lounge with decrepit elderly cops Benson and Hedges—a masked mob descend upon the building, in search of the sole occupant: a terrified woman, who is now ensconced in Rey’s former room. Fight or flight? What do you think? Welcome back to Paignton, Joe. There’s no place like home… (Author's note: this book contains scenes and language that readers of a sensitive disposition may find disturbing.)